The 2025 FIM Supersport World Championship season is underway, and screaming out of the gate has been Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) atop his Triumph Street Triple RS 765. The fourth-year rider in just one round in 2025 has surpassed his previous podium tally from his last three seasons combined. Having earned a sole third-place finish in 2024 at Cremona’s Race 2, ‘TBA’ won his first WorldSSP race and set a new career high for podium appearances with his pair of finishes within the rostrum.

Booth-Amos became the fourth rider to win in both WorldSSP300 and WorldSSP with his victory, matching the achievements of Moto2™ stars Adrian Huertas and Manuel Gonzalez and 2025 WordlSBK rookie Bahattin Sofuoglu (Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team). It had been a long time coming for the Brit, who had the fourth-most starts in the Championship before taking his first win with 63; the record belongs to Raffaele De Rosa (QJMOTOR Factory Racing) with 89.

“It’s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders to get the win finally,” said Booth-Amos. “After a podium last year obviously I was happy, but as a racer, you always want a win so it was nice to finally get that here, and pay back my team for all the hard work over the winter. I wouldn’t have expected it after the test in the beginning of the week, I was completely lost and struggling, thankfully the team turned it around, and I think now we’re leading the championship.”

Booth-Amos held off repeated challenges from fifth-year Italian rider and 2024 runner-up Stefano Manzi (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) in the second half of the race, a second half in which Booth-Amos found himself 1.012s slower than necessary as he had mistakenly stayed longer in the pit lane than the time mandated by the mandatory Pit Lane Intervention time. On the mistake, Booth-Amos was candid and light-hearted in his response, “I’m just not the best at counting to be honest.” laughed Booth-Amos, “On the dash obviously it tells me, but I can never work out how early I can leave the pit lane. If we ever have do this format again I’ll need to work on it.” Manzi vs. Booth-Amos might be a matchup we will be hearing more of this season, as the pair of riders exchanged P1 for P2 after Manzi topped the podium in Race 1.

The win was not only a momentous occasion for Booth-Amos, but also for his PTR Triumph Factory Racing Team, which took home the manufacturer’s second-ever win. While they are set to overtake Suzuki this year in total WorldSSP race count, at the moment they are the newest manufacturer to the competition behind MV Agusta and budding Chinese manufacturer, QJ Motors.

On his accomplishment for himself, his team, PTR Triumph Factory Team Manager Simon Buckmaster said, “What can I say, Tom rode a flawless race so smooth, congratulations to him. Congratulations to Oli as well on his two seventh places.  We couldn’t have wanted for more, I want to congratulate my whole team for all the effort.  It’s paid off, the bike looked really good. This is a special moment as it’s also the first time a Triumph has led a World Championship in road racing. Thank you to everyone at Triumph for all they do for us. I’m a bit lost for words, it’s just a great reward for all the hard work put in and we will now look forward to Portimao.”

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